Makes tagging a release prep the norm

[johnnyt]

What changed

The operator ruled on 2026-09-25 that the version bump and the tag of a release prep are the family norm, and that publishing is the operator's one release step. This file said a tag stays the operator's however a consent arrives. Now:

• Release-prep row: its last cell's "Tagging is not the agent's at all - the tag is the operator's, alongside the push and the publish" becomes "The tag of that prep, once it is merged to origin/main, is the agent's too; the publish stays the operator's". The bold mix hex.publish row is untouched. ADR-0006 keeps publishing non-delegable and places tagging among the release mechanics that have a trigger, so this is consistent with it.
• Relay paragraph: "mix hex.publish, and tagging or cutting a release stay forbidden" drops tagging; the release-prep opening now includes the tag of the merged prep. The 2026-09-02 recorded exception's "the tag, the push and the publish stay the operator's" becomes "the publish stays the operator's, and the tag follows the Release preps paragraph below".
• Skills table: the /wurk:release line reads "the tag and the human-gated publish stay separate" (the skill still never tags).
• A new Release preps paragraph, placed after the other recorded exceptions and word for word the same in every family package's CLAUDE.md: the version bump and the tag of a release prep are the family norm, not a grant a campaign consent has to name; once the prep is merged to origin/main, the conductor (or the session that owns the release bead) tags that merged commit and pushes the tag; publishing is the operator's one release step, in every campaign; merging follows this file's merge row and nothing else the file reserves changes.

Nothing else in the authority section moves: the merge row, record flips, a docs republish, and closing a mirrored bead read as before.

No changelog fragment: changelog.d/README.md excludes documentation and agent tooling changes.

Review

Gate: not run. Every file touched is outside the manifest's build paths and also-gated paths, so the commit row's docs-only clause applies.

Firewall and planning-id scans clean over the outbound diff, the commit message and this text.

Held for the operator's merge word; do not merge on green alone.

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